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Generate titles for war and strategy games, from grand strategy like Iron Meridian and Fields of Attrition to hex-and-counter battles like Black Sand: Iwo Jima 1945, real-time strategy like Harvester Down and science fiction campaigns like The Kessler Front.

About War game names

War games are named differently depending on the scale they simulate. Grand strategy titles sound like history books and treaties (Iron Meridian, Concert of Powers, The Long Peace), because the player runs a state and not a squad. Tactical games go the other way and name a place, a unit or a moment: Hedgerow Company, Hold Until Relieved, Hull Down. Real-time strategy favors short, hard words that fit a logo, such as Harvester Down or Bastion Protocol.

Board wargames have their own convention. The classic hex-and-counter title is an evocative phrase, a colon, then the battle and year, as in Black Sand: Iwo Jima 1945 or Arrowstorm: Agincourt 1415. The list includes a full group of these, from ancient, Napoleonic, American Civil War, World War and Cold War battles, alongside naval and air titles like Crossing the T and Bomber Stream.

The rest covers warfare that never happened: science fiction (The Kessler Front, Rods from Orbit), fantasy (Banners of the Broken Crown, Pike and Sorcery), trench-era and alternate history (Creeping Barrage, Diesel Empires), and lighter titles for mobile games or a gaming group's in-jokes, like Zone of Control Freaks. Use them for a game in development, a mod, a club campaign or a fictional game inside a story.

How to choose War game names

  • Let the scale choose the style. A game about nations wants an abstract, bookish title like Strategic Depth, while a platoon-level game wants something a soldier might say, like Weapons Free or Out of Fuel.
  • For a historical board wargame, keep the battle and year in the subtitle. Players search by battle, so Backhand Blow: Kharkov 1943 tells them the topic and still gives you a memorable lead phrase.
  • Check the dates if you adapt a historical title to another battle. A wrong year on the box is the first thing a wargamer will notice.
  • Search the title on the big game stores and on BoardGameGeek before you commit. Military vocabulary is shared by everyone, so short generic titles are the most likely to be in use already.
  • Say the title with a number after it. If it still works as a series, like Tripwire Force 2 or a new battle after the colon, it will serve you longer than a one-off joke.

Frequently asked questions

What makes a good war game title?

A good title tells players the scale and the era before they see a screenshot. Iron Meridian and Guns Before Butter sound like grand strategy, Halftrack Platoon sounds tactical, and Void Fleet Tactics is clearly science fiction. Short titles with one strong image are easier to remember and easier to fit on a box or a store tile.

Do the historical titles use real battles and dates?

Yes. Each historical subtitle pairs a real battle with the year it was fought, for example The Great Redoubt: Borodino 1812 or Seventy-Six Hours: Tarawa 1943. The lead phrases point to well-known features of those battles, such as the Hot Gates in Hot Gates: Thermopylae 480 BC. If you move a title to a different battle, look up the date yourself.

Can I use one of these names for my own game?

Yes, the list is meant as a starting point for developers, modders and tabletop designers. We have not looked up whether any title is already used by a published game, and with common military terms that is quite possible. Search the stores and BoardGameGeek, and get legal advice before a commercial release.

What is a hex-and-counter wargame?

It is the traditional board wargame format: a map overlaid with a hexagonal grid, and cardboard counters that stand for units. Titles in that hobby usually name the battle and the year, which is why one group here follows the pattern of Fortress in the Desert: Tobruk 1941. The same naming style works for digital wargames that use hex maps.

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A: 26 names

  • A Map of Ambitions
  • A War by Proxy
  • Able Archer Morning
  • Able Company 1944
  • Active Defense
  • After Action Review
  • Age of Ultimatums
  • Air Tasking Order
  • Airship Broadside
  • All Ahead Full
  • Angels Twenty
  • Arcane Artillery
  • Arctic Harbor: Narvik 1940
  • Ardennes Fog
  • Armchair Field Marshal
  • Armies of the Rust Belt
  • Armistice Eve
  • Armored Cavalry Screen
  • Armored Spearhead
  • Arrowstorm: Agincourt 1415
  • Arsenal of Nations
  • Artillery Park
  • Ashigaru Line
  • Asteroid Fortress
  • Atoll Assault
  • Attrition Doctrine

B: 37 names

  • Backhand Blow: Kharkov 1943
  • Backyard Battalion
  • Baker Company Holds
  • Balloon Busters
  • Banners of the Broken Crown
  • Barracks to Battlefield
  • Base Under Siege
  • Bastion Protocol
  • Bathtub Admirals
  • Battle Mages: Spellfront
  • Battle of Nations: Leipzig 1813
  • Battlecruiser Squadron
  • Battlegroup North
  • Beachhead on Kepler
  • Beer and Pretzels Blitz
  • Beyond Visual Range
  • Big Wing
  • Bingo Fuel
  • Black Day: Amiens 1918
  • Black Gold Offensive
  • Black Sand: Iwo Jima 1945
  • Blitz Protocol
  • Blockade and Embargo
  • Blocky Battalions
  • Boarding Action
  • Bocage: Field by Field
  • Bomber Stream
  • Bonefield Tactics
  • Borders Drawn in Blood
  • Bridge Before Dawn
  • Broadside in the Black
  • Broadside!
  • Bronze Age Collapse
  • Brown Water Patrol
  • Build Order
  • Bunker Tycoon
  • Burma Road Column

C: 50 names

  • Capital Offensive
  • Caracole
  • Cardboard Panzers
  • Carrier Group Andromeda
  • Carrier Strike Group
  • Casus Belli Rising
  • Century of Ash
  • Ceres Blockade
  • Checkpoint Standoff
  • Chevauchee
  • Chindit Column
  • Circumvallation: Alesia 52 BC
  • Clear, Hold, Build
  • Clicker Commander
  • Clockwork Hussars
  • Closing the Gap: Falaise 1944
  • Coalition Wars
  • Cold War Gone Hot
  • Colossus Yard
  • Combat Air Patrol
  • Combined Arms Breach
  • Command Economy
  • Command Uplink
  • Commander's Gambit
  • Companions' Charge

C, continued

  • Concert of Powers
  • Condotta: Captains for Hire
  • Conjured Battalions
  • Convoy Escort Commander
  • Convoy Escort Duty
  • Coral and Steel
  • Cornfield at Dawn: Antietam 1862
  • Corporate War: Hostile Takeover
  • Corps d'Armee
  • Corridor Crisis
  • Couch Commanders
  • Counter Clippers
  • Counterbattery
  • Cove and Ridge: Gallipoli 1915
  • Covering Force
  • Cracks in the Wall
  • Creeping Barrage
  • Crimson Protocol
  • Crossing at Night: Trenton 1776
  • Crossing the T
  • Crossroads at Midnight
  • Crown and Cabinet
  • Crowns of the Old Continent
  • Crypt Legion Rising
  • Cuirassiers Forward

D: 23 names

  • Daimyo's Gambit
  • Deep Battle Doctrine
  • Depth Charge Alley
  • Desert Flank
  • Dice and Dragoons
  • Diesel Empires
  • Dieselpunk Dominion
  • Dog Green Sector
  • Dogfight Doctrine
  • Dominion and Dissent
  • Double Envelopment
  • Dragons over the Line
  • Dreadnought Epoch
  • Dreadnought Race
  • Drone Dominion
  • Drone Swarm Doctrine
  • Drop Zone Normandy
  • Dropship Down
  • Duckboards and Mud
  • Dusk of Dynasties
  • Dust and Diesel
  • Dwarfhold Under Siege
  • Dynasties at War

E: 13 names

  • Eagles of the Rhine
  • Eighty-Eights on the Ridge
  • Elbe Link-Up
  • Electronic Order of Battle
  • Elephant Line: Zama 202 BC
  • Elephants and Cataphracts
  • Eleven Group
  • Ember Legion
  • Empire of Ledgers
  • Escort to Target
  • Europa Landing
  • Exo-Frame Battalion
  • Exoplanet Landing Force

F: 27 names

  • Factory District
  • Feigned Retreat
  • Fields of Attrition
  • Finger Four
  • Fire Mission: Grid Square
  • Firebase Monsoon
  • Fireflies and Tigers
  • Fireships at Dusk
  • First Contact Doctrine
  • First Island Chain
  • First of July: Somme 1916
  • Fishhook Line: Gettysburg 1863
  • Five Minutes: Midway 1942
  • Flank March: Chancellorsville 1863
  • Flank Speed
  • Fleet in Being
  • Fog on the Field: Sekigahara 1600
  • Fortress in the Desert: Tobruk 1941
  • Forty Light-Years from Relief
  • Forward Air Controller
  • Forward Edge
  • Frontier Provinces
  • Frontline Foundry
  • Frostmarch Campaign
  • Frozen Hills: Chosin Reservoir 1950
  • Frozen Lake Road
  • Fulda Morning

G: 16 names

  • Garrison World
  • Gates of Berlin: Seelow Heights 1945
  • Generals and Ministers
  • Generals in Pajamas
  • Generals of the Ash Plains
  • Glider Assault
  • Goblin War Drums
  • Golem Foundry
  • Grand Battery
  • Grand Fleet at Anchor
  • Green Line Patrol
  • Green Troops: Kasserine Pass 1943
  • Griffon Lancers
  • Gunpowder Empires
  • Guns Before Butter
  • Gunship Escort

H: 25 names

  • Halftrack Platoon
  • Hammer and Anvil
  • Hardsuit Infantry
  • Harvester Down
  • Hedgerow Company
  • Hegemon's Burden
  • Hejaz Railway Raiders
  • Hex and Halberd
  • Hex Appeal
  • High King's Levy
  • High Tide: Inchon 1950
  • Hold the Relay
  • Hold Until Relieved
  • Home by Christmas
  • Hordes of the Ashen Steppe
  • Hornet's Nest: Shiloh 1862
  • Horns of the Crescent: Cannae 216 BC
  • Horse Archer Dawn
  • Hot Gates: Thermopylae 480 BC
  • Hot LZ
  • Hull Breach Protocol
  • Hull Down
  • Hunter-Killer Group
  • Hurricane Bombardment
  • Hyperlane Blockade

I: 5 names

  • Imperial Overreach
  • Infiltration Tactics
  • Iron Meridian
  • Ironclads on the River
  • Ironwood Pikes

J: 2 names

  • Jet Age Intercept
  • Jump Point Ambush

K: 5 names

  • Kampfgruppe Winter
  • Kinetic Bombardment
  • Kitchen Table Campaign
  • Knights of the Verdant March
  • Kopje and Veldt

L: 26 names

  • Lace Wars
  • Lagrange Siege
  • Land Ironclads
  • Landing Zone X-Ray: Ia Drang 1965
  • Landship Column
  • Last River West
  • Last Spring Offensive
  • Left Hook
  • Legion and Phalanx
  • Legions of the Pale King
  • Lend-Lease Convoy
  • Lightning in June: Six-Day War 1967
  • Line and Column
  • Line in the Sand: El Alamein 1942
  • Line of Departure
  • Line of Sight Arguments
  • Little Friends
  • Littoral Combat
  • Loitering Munition
  • Long Range Patrol
  • Longbow and Lance
  • Lords of the March
  • Lost Eagles: Teutoburg Forest 9 AD
  • Low Orbit, High Ground
  • Low Tide Landing
  • Lunch Break Offensive

M: 21 names

  • Machine Uprising
  • Mandate and Rebellion
  • Manpower and Steel
  • March of the Standards
  • Marches of the Old Kingdom
  • Marian Reforms
  • Marshal of the Seven Rivers
  • Marshal's Baton
  • Mass Driver
  • Matchlock and Saber
  • Mech Foundry
  • Mech Lance Command
  • Megacity Pacification
  • Meltdown Sector
  • Mill on the Meuse: Verdun 1916
  • Missile Boat Flotilla
  • Monsoon Front
  • Motti Tactics: Winter War 1939
  • Mountain Outpost
  • Mud Season
  • Mud to the Knees: Passchendaele 1917

N: 8 names

  • Nations at the Brink
  • Neon Insurgency
  • Night Drop
  • Night Intruder
  • Nine Days to the Channel
  • No Man's Land Patrol
  • Northern Flank
  • Nova Front

O: 19 names

  • Oars and Cannon: Lepanto 1571
  • Oasis Raiders
  • Oathbound Legions
  • Oblique Order
  • Old Guard, Last Reserve
  • Olympus Mons Offensive
  • One More Turn
  • One Road North: Arnhem 1944
  • Opening Gambit
  • Operation Broken Compass
  • Operation Glass Hammer
  • Operation Pale Lantern
  • Operation Quiet Thunder
  • Operation Winter Harvest
  • Orbital Drop Command
  • Orc Tide Rising
  • Ore Rush
  • Out of Fuel
  • Outremer Garrison

P: 22 names

  • Palm Sunday Snow: Towton 1461
  • Partisan Summer
  • Partition
  • Pathfinders: First In
  • Peacekeeper's Dilemma
  • Penal Battalion
  • Periscope Depth
  • Phase Line Amber
  • Phobos Station Siege
  • Pike and Sorcery
  • Pillow Fort Wars
  • Pincer
  • Pipeline Wars
  • Pixel Platoon
  • Plastic Army Surplus
  • Pocket and Relief
  • Pocket Generals
  • Powered Armor Platoon
  • Pratzen Heights: Austerlitz 1805
  • PT Boat Alley
  • Pulsar Line
  • Push of Pike

Q: 1 name

  • Quartermaster Tycoon

R: 22 names

  • Rad Zone Skirmish
  • Radar Picket
  • Railgun Diplomacy
  • Rails and Rifles
  • Reactive Armor
  • Rear Guard at the River
  • Red Horizon Protocol
  • Red Planet Secession
  • Red Team Rising
  • Redoubt Ten: Yorktown 1781
  • Refinery Wars
  • Reforger Convoy
  • Relay Station Nine
  • Resistance Cell
  • Rods from Orbit
  • Roll for Morale
  • Rotor Wash
  • Rubber Duck Armada
  • Ruins on the Volga: Stalingrad 1942
  • Rules Lawyers at War
  • Runes and Regiments
  • Rustborn Legions

S: 57 names

  • Sabot Up
  • Salvage Front
  • Sand Table
  • Sandstorm Contact: 73 Easting 1991
  • Sap and Mine
  • Save Scum Strategy
  • Schiltron: Bannockburn 1314
  • Scorched Supply
  • Scouting Force
  • Sea Lanes
  • Seat of Empire
  • Sector Command: Perseus Arm
  • Sector Control
  • Sellsword Company
  • Sengoku Banners
  • Seventy-Seven Days: Khe Sanh 1968
  • Seventy-Six Hours: Tarawa 1943
  • Shield and Pilum
  • Shield Wall: Hastings 1066
  • Shock Army
  • Siege Engine
  • Siege Lines: Vauban's Art
  • Siege of the Ninth Gate
  • Siege Walker
  • Signal Flags
  • Six Miles Inland
  • Sixty-Three Days: Warsaw 1944
  • Skirmish at Ravenford

S, continued

  • Skirmishers Out
  • Skyship Armada
  • Snow and Blood: Eylau 1807
  • Sound of the Guns
  • Sovereigns and Sabers
  • Spearhead at Dawn
  • Spears of the Dawn Host
  • Spectrum Warfare
  • Spell and Pike
  • Spheres and Satellites
  • Spreadsheet General
  • Squares and Sabers
  • Stalemate Beach: Anzio 1944
  • Starfall Campaign
  • Starvation Island: Guadalcanal 1942
  • Steam and Shrapnel
  • Steel Tide Rising
  • Steppe Archers
  • Steppe Fire
  • Steppe Hegemony
  • Storm Giants' War
  • Strait Crisis
  • Strategic Depth
  • Successor Kingdoms
  • Superweapon Countdown
  • Supply Depot Zero
  • Supply Lines of Empire
  • Surface Action Group
  • Swarm Front

T: 64 names

  • Tactical Operations Center
  • Tactics of the Fallen Realm
  • Tank Destroyer Doctrine
  • Tank Rush
  • Tanks Forward: Cambrai 1917
  • Taxis to the Front: Marne 1914
  • Tech Tree Burning
  • Telegraph and Bayonet
  • Tennis Court: Kohima 1944
  • Terraform and Conquer
  • Tesla Front
  • The Berlin Tunnel Crisis
  • The Black Banner Host
  • The Black Pit
  • The Bridge Still Stands: Remagen 1945
  • The Cauldron: Gazala 1942
  • The Coldest December
  • The Continental System
  • The Day After the Sirens
  • The Eleventh Hour Offensive
  • The Great Redoubt: Borodino 1812
  • The Guard Recoils: Waterloo 1815
  • The Hof Gap
  • The Hundred Hours
  • The Hundred Year Map
  • The July Ultimatum
  • The Kessler Front
  • The Khan's Tumen
  • The Last Great Power
  • The Last Reserve: Kursk 1943
  • The Long 1919
  • The Long Peace

T, continued

  • The Meat Grinder: Rzhev 1942
  • The Necromancer's Offensive
  • The Pals Battalion
  • The Peasant Host
  • The Perimeter: Dunkirk 1940
  • The Quiet Annexation
  • The Race to the Sea
  • The Rasputitsa Offensive
  • The Reluctant Alliance
  • The Siege of Thornwall
  • The Silent Armada
  • The Thousand Mile Front
  • The War Cabinet
  • The War That Never Ended
  • The White War
  • Theater of Nations
  • Thrones and Treaties
  • Tin Soldier Uprising
  • Tiny Tank Tactics
  • Top Attack
  • Torpedo Junction
  • Torres Vedras Lines
  • Total Mobilization
  • Trebuchets and Wyrms
  • Trench Raid
  • Triplex Acies
  • Tripwire Force
  • Trolls at the Ford
  • Twin Rivers Skirmish
  • Two-Front War
  • Typhoon of Steel: Okinawa 1945
  • Typhoon Stalls: Moscow 1941

U: 3 names

  • Undead Frontier
  • Under the Abbey: Monte Cassino 1944
  • Unit Cap

V: 5 names

  • Vacuum Marines
  • Valley of Tears: Golan Heights 1973
  • Vector Command
  • Victory Conditions
  • Void Fleet Tactics

W: 17 names

  • Walker Column
  • War for the Belt
  • War of the Broken Seal
  • War of the Seven Banners
  • Warbands of the Mire
  • Warhead Valley
  • Wasteland Warlords
  • Weapons Free
  • Weapons Tight
  • Weasel Flight
  • Weather Gauge
  • Whiff of Grapeshot
  • Wings over the Island: Crete 1941
  • Winter Counterstroke
  • Wooden Walls: Salamis 480 BC
  • Wormhole Garrison
  • Wyvern Cavalry

X: 1 name

  • Xeno Offensive

Y: 2 names

  • Yalu Patrol
  • Yomping East: Falklands 1982

Z: 3 names

  • Zeppelin Dreadnoughts
  • Zeppelin Raid
  • Zone of Control Freaks